With tight timelines and rapid development tools, people on your
team often find themselves on the hamster wheel of endless production. Out of
context, this production machine seems very much alive and in sync with
corporate needs. But is it? A six-word story experiment asked people to share
their experience with corporate training—and not a single one of these stories
offered a happy ending. Even with only six words, stories can weave an intricate
web of emotions and events. What if you could capitalize on the power of story
to redirect the efforts of your team and bring out everything human about your
organization?

In this session, you’ll find out what an instructional story is
and learn the three most powerful aspects of story that can transform your
organization. Using instructional story design and a variety of technical
options, you’ll address corporate learning needs with a wholistic approach,
integrating technology, people, and information. Your organization will never
be the same.

In
this session, you will learn:

About the difference between vignettes
and instructional stories

About the fundamental concepts for
instructional story design

About the three most powerful aspects
of story for transforming organizations

How to experiment with various
technical and non-technical approaches of story distribution

How to develop an action plan for
building relationships that add to the corporate story

Technology
discussed in this session:PowToon, Aurasma, Poll Everywhere, survey tools,
internal/external social sharing platforms, social brainstorming, email, xAPI,
and a whole host of simple, complex, free, and expensive tools that can be used
in new ways for instructional story design.

Katie Stroud

President, CEO

Incremental Success

Katie Stroud is the president and CEO of Incremental Success. After more than a decade in technical writing and technical training for technical companies, Katie turns technical problems on their head with a creative twist that capitalizes on storytelling and visualization. She not only engages audiences and enhances learning, but also breathes new life into solutions for solving complex business learning problems. Katie wants to inspire learners with techniques that cut to the heart of the issue and make an impact.